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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Thursday, January 20, 2022
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M. SCHULZ
Man locks himself away
for days after every fight
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE
B.C.
PICKLES
BEETLE BAILEY
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
BY MASTROIANNI AND HART
BY BRIAN CRANE
or “interesting” may sound a bit
Dear Abby: When my hus-
odd.
band and I fight, which isn’t re-
In a similar vein, what does
ally that often, he shuts himself
one say to someone when they
away for several days. He locks
share that they are divorced? I
the door to his office or the
recall a woman I met telling me
guest room and won’t come out.
she was divorced. I said, “I’m
I try to give him time to cool
sorry,” and she replied, “I’m
off, but sometimes it’s awkward.
J EANNE
not!” What’s an appropriate
He wouldn’t talk to me at all
P HILLIPS
response for when these situa-
for several days while his whole
ADvIce
tions happen? I don’t want to
family was here celebrating his
appear unsympathetic, but per-
grandma’s 90th birthday.
haps they don’t want sympathy.
He’s mad again. I apologized
by text since he wouldn’t talk to me, but — Sympathetic In Florida
Dear Sympathetic: You may have hit
our kids — ages 6 and 8 — are going to
wonder why Daddy isn’t with us. Should on something. The birthrate in the Unit-
I skip a planned event and give him more ed States is at an all-time low because
time to cool off or try to approach him? many women have chosen to forgo moth-
erhood. If someone tells you she doesn’t
— Waiting For Him In Georgia
Dear Waiting: Skip the planned event, have children, all you have to say is “Oh,”
and when your passive-aggressive hus- and change the subject. You should not
band comes out of hiding, INSIST the interrogate the person further. As for the
two of you get marriage counseling to subject of divorce, sometimes dissolution
resolve your differences. Dealing with of a marriage is therapeutic. Do not ask
conflict by hiding and using the silent for — or expect — more details. Show an
treatment to punish one’s spouse sets a interest in what your old friend is doing
poor example for your children. If he NOW and move on from there.
Dear Abby: My late husband was a
won’t do it for the sake of your marriage,
he should do it for the emotional health dentist. Should I include his DDS de-
gree on his headstone? — Not Sure
of those kids.
Dear Abby: I will be meeting an old In The South
Dear Not Sure: Although your hus-
high school friend for lunch. We are now
in our 50s. I heard through the grapevine band may be deceased and no longer
that she never had children. I am unsure practicing dentistry, it doesn’t make him
what to say when the subject of chil- any less a dentist. He earned his degree.
dren comes up, as it invariably will. “I’m If you would like it carved in granite, I
sorry” may not be appropriate because don’t see why it shouldn’t be. Inquire at
perhaps she never wanted any. “Wow” the cemetery about its protocol.
BY MORT WALKER
DAYS GONE BY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND JOHN MARSHALL
100 years ago — 1922
The State Dog Tax Law which was enacted
at the legislative session of 1919, and which
was thought to be unconstitutional, has
recently been upheld by the supreme court,
and will now be rigidly enforced by the
county court, according to a statement today.
Applications for license should be made to the
county clerk by all dog owners, being care-
ful to give the length of collar desired. This
is a state tax and is additional to any city tax
which may be collected in the cities. The tax
is $1.00 for males and $2.00 for females. The
tax is now due and collectable.
50 years ago — 1972
Usually when someone shows up at a city
council meeting, it’s with a problem. So when
Calvin Bryan stepped forward at the Pend-
leton City Council meeting, councilmen sat
back to grapple with another headache. Bryan
surprised them. “I want to express my grat-
itude and that of my neighbors to the coun-
cil and to the Traffic Safety Commission,” he
said, on how the city handled a traffic prob-
lem in the area. A favorite pastime of youth-
ful drivers in Pendleton is to drive down Main
Street in a sort of endless parade. The route
used to include circling the block at the north
end of Main to get back onto the main drag.
Residents of the area complained about the
noise and litter. The Traffic Safety Commis-
sion and the city’s engineer’s office recom-
mended a change in the traffic flow, keeping it
on North Main. The council gave a green light
to the experiment. It’s worked, Bryan said, and
the traffic past his residence has been reduced
by about half. “We came to you about a year
ago with a gripe and a petition,” Bryan said,
“and something has been done. Thank you.”
25 years ago — 1997
Hal’s Hamburgers was closed, but that
didn’t stop a pickup from plowing into the
drive-through at about 7:10 Saturday morn-
ing when the driver lost control. No one was
in the popular landmark restaurant at S.E.
20th and Court in Pendleton. The restaurant
will be closed at least two weeks for repairs,
said manager Randy Cook. The window on
the south side was smashed, and the impact
pushed the grill and hood vent about eight
inches away from the wall. Cook said Satur-
day’s incident was the first time anything like
that had happened. The culprit was a 1991
Ford pickup, which also smashed into a nearby
storage shed. Police reports did not identify
the driver, and no citations were issued.
TODAY IN HISTORY
DILBERT
THE WIZARD OF ID
LUANN
ZITS
BY SCOTT ADAMS
BY PARKER AND HART
BY GREG EVANS
BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN
On Jan. 20, 1942, Nazi
officials held the notori-
ous Wannsee conference,
during which they arrived
at their “final solution”
that called for exterminat-
ing Europe’s Jews.
In 1801, Secretary of
State John Marshall was
nominated by President
John Adams to be chief
justice of the United
States.
In 1936, Britain’s King
George V died after his
physician injected the
mortally ill monarch with
morphine and cocaine to
hasten his death; the king
was succeeded by his el-
dest son, Edward VIII,
who abdicated the throne
11 months later to marry
American divorcee Wallis
Simpson.
In 1937, President
Franklin D. Roosevelt be-
came the first chief execu-
tive to be inaugurated on
Jan. 20 instead of March
4.
In 1961, John F. Ken-
nedy was inaugurated as
the 35th President of the
United States.
In 1964, Capitol Re-
cords released the album
“Meet the Beatles!”
In 1981, Iran releas-
ed 52 Americans it had
held hostage for 444 days,
minutes after the presi-
dency had passed from
Jimmy Carter to Ronald
Reagan.
In 1986, the United
States observed the first
federal holiday in honor
of slain civil rights leader
Martin Luther King Jr.
In
2009,
Barack
Obama was sworn in as
the nation’s 44th, as well
as first African American,
president.
In
2011,
federal
authorities
orchestrat-
ed one of the biggest
Mafia takedowns in FBI
history, charging 127 sus-
pected mobsters and as-
sociates in the Northeast
with murders, extortion
and other crimes span-
ning decades.
In
2020,
Chinese
government
experts
confirmed
human-to-
human transmission of
the new coronavirus, say-
ing two people caught the
virus from family mem-
bers and that some health
workers had tested posi-
tive.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE